Identity Thief

Chapter 2: False Love

I've always hated hospitals. They're supposed to be a place of healing, but I find them to be more of a place of death. A dozen tubes and beeping machines are connected to me. I can't remember why. Usually the inmates aren't brought to hospitals, just the prison medical centre, so whatever happened must have been serious. Then I remember. I remember what the guard at solitary confinement had told me about a robbery and murder at a morgue and the man who did it, Aaron Gaitree, and how he was being sent to the same prison as me. I remember the man who helped me steal money which just happened to be forged and got me put in jail. His name also happened to be Aaron Gaitree. I know it was him that planted the forged money at the ATM I was robbing. That is how I know it was him that used my name at that Walmart and stabbed Gavin Hope in the back. I don't know how he did it but I do know why. Aaron and I were lovers a while ago but his parents weren't very excepting of that. So, they kicked him out. He moved in with me and for a while we were fine but I always knew he secretly blamed me for his parents disapproval. Maybe if I had picked a better guy, he would say as a joke, but him and I both knew he meant it. It wasn't my fault, his parents were just old school. So I got a wife and had kids and moved on because I figured why stay with someone who didn't want to be with me? Then he found me a year later, he came to my door begging for a place to say because he had no where and I couldn't turn him down. With just one extra body to feed in the house I went broke. He tried getting a job but he was a broken man and no one wanted to hire him. So, him and I made plans to rob an ATM. More low-key then robbing a bank but it would still give us enough money to get going again. The police came quicker than we anticipated (I suspect Aaron gave them a hint there would be a robbery), Aaron got away in time but I got caught with a bag full of forged money. I got two charges and five years in prison. Aaron ruined my life in many different ways and I hate him for it. I think the feelings are mutual. Anyways Aaron and I at the same prison will not be good for anyone.
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Raymond Work, Righten Lees and Saphora Jean were all working late into the night, trying to figure out where the call from the supposed Samuel King had been made.
"Got it!" Exclaims Righten and he turns his computer screen to face Raymond and Saphora. The call had been made at an abandoned motel about an hour away from Raymond's house, where they were right now.
"We should go check it out." Suggests Saphora, "If Samuel King is out there, we will find him and get the reward."
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I was genuinely curious as to why Cecilia Davis might not be dead. Only because she's my friend Kenneth Moore's wife. He's in jail and has no idea she's dead. I thought the least I could do was make sure she was actually dead before I told him. But I guess she actually is dead and I'll get to tell him in a day when I'm transferred to his prison. I know he blames me for his arrest, but it wasn't me. Just like the murder and robbery at the morgue wasn't me. I called the cops and waited for them to get there for goodness sakes, why would I do that if I was actually guilty? At least I'll be able to see Kenneth again and hopefully make emends. He might not know it but I do still love him.
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"He's in jail! What are we supposed to do now?"
"The plan can proceed without him. Of course I'd prefer it if it didn't involve my son in prison. Poor thing, I just wish I could tell him that this has all been the plan, that this was all supposed to happen and I never wanted to throw him out."
"He knows, sir. You're his father he knows you'll love him no matter what his choices. As long as they follow the plan."
"I suppose you're right."